WOMEN: Little Sureshot

As it must to all men, Death came to Mrs. Annie Oakley ("Little Sureshot") Butler, 66, most marked markswoman in history, at Greenville, Ohio, after long illness. She had directed that they cremate her remains; bury her ashes in Darke County, Ohio, where she began handling firearms at a tender age to supply her widowed mother with game.

It was 25 years since, smashed in a train accident, she had suffered almost complete paralysis of one side of her body, but only 24 years since she set one of her best records, at a...

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